Euro Quotes - Page 6

• In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

  Bill McKibben

  Euro Crisis, Years, Cliffs

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• We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Europe, Greece

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• Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Substitutes, Integration, Policy

  "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

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• If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Car, Spain

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• It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Needs, Moments

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• The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Unions, Results

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• After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  Portugal, Interest, Rate

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• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Japan, Europe, United States

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• Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, People, Banking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different in its states as well, so I never really think of things in big blocks, in terms of other artists.

  Patrick Wolf

  Block, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.

  John L. Casti

  Euro Crisis, Suffering, Events

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fighting, Greek, Public Opinion

  Source: marketnews.com

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• The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the European Union. And we do not believe and have not believed for at least 10 years that Britain should be part of the euro.

  Lionel Barber

  Believe, Taken, Years

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble... the real difference was the introduction of the euro.

  Ruth Davidson

  Real, Roots, Differences

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.

  Gisela Stuart

  Jobs, Rights, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Businesses will only invest in Greece if three conditions are fulfilled. First, there must be a clear commitment to the euro. No businesses will invest if they have to fear that Greece will leave the euro zone at some point. Second, the Greek government must be prepared to work together with European institutions in order to restructure the country.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Commitment, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In China the largest denomination bill they have is 100 yen, and that's maybe $7. So here you have a whole economy working with only a $7 note as the largest denomination. The euro wants to get rid of the 500-euro bill just as the United States years ago got rid of the $1,000 bill because only the criminals used $1,000 bills.

  Michael Hudson

  Years, Criminals, United States

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether it can pay the IMF, which is threatening not to be part of the troika with the European Central Bank and the European Union making more loans to enable Greece to pay the bondholders and the banks. Britain is having a referendum as to whether to withdraw from the European Union, and it looks more and more like it may do so. So the world's politics are in turmoil.

  Michael Hudson

  Ukraine, Looks, Imf

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Refugee Crisis, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Opposites, Stories, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing the prospect of leaving the euro zone and many Greeks felt abandoned by Europe. In such a situation, it seemed appropriate to me to present myself as a friend to Greece. It had to do with the country's dignity.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Europe, Leaving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Concerning the common currency: today, the euro is not worth it for Poland. The reason why we survived the financial and economic crisis quite well is that we have a national currency. This will not change in the near future.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Today, Reason Why, Common

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

  Milton Friedman

  Helping, Problem, Source

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

  Milton Friedman

  Germany, Employment, Wages

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again.

  Milton Friedman

  Past, Would Be, Debt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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